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The growth of the railroads led to the abolition of local [#permalink]
20 Jul 2005, 05:20

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The growth of the railroads led to the abolition of local times, which was determined by when the sun reached the observer’s meridian and differing from city to city, and to the establishment of regional times.

(A) which was determined by when the sun reached the observer’s meridian and differing
(B) which was determined by when the sun reached the observer’s meridian and which differed
(C) which were determined by when the sun reached the observer’s meridian and differing
(D) determined by when the sun reached the observer’s meridian and differed
(E) determined by when the sun reached the observer’s meridian and differing

Please explain, why not:
(D) determined by when the sun reached the observer?s meridian and differed
You may say, that it is not clear which noun "determined" reffers to, but there were a lot of other question with similar constructions considered to be correct.

What was determined by such and such? It should be local times, not the abolition of local times. So the verb should be WHICH WERE, not WAS. Also taking into account parallelism, only D exhibits such as in "reached, and differed"

"was" incorrect in A and B."determined" incorrectly tries to modify "local times" in D and E.

Although C has a mixed tense , determined and differing.I think we can live with it, coz if it were "differed" it would mean that local times no longer differ.

HMTG.

Hm.. I agree.
I originally thought the answer would be D, but now I come to think of it, I think the sentence structure is "local times, which were determined (adjective)... and differing(adjective)..."